From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-05-13T05:57:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9+ , floats, and decimal

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> For general purpose languages, a combination of integers (possibly
> including arbitrary length integers as in Ruby/Smalltalk, etc) and
> binary floats is probably the best choice for 'default'
> representations, along with giving the programmer to choose
> alternative representations for particular uses based on informed
> trade-offs.

And to add to that point: most languages are based on int and float, so 
if those are the default types in ruby, it is easier to port code (or 
your brain) to and from ruby. Why add another gotcha to the list that 
newbies have to learn when coming to ruby from perl, c, java, js, ...?